[Peace-discuss] "Alleged terrorist plot"

[Jenifer Cartwright]

Well, David, this made me read the whole article, and the rest of the article does mention some questionable stuff that warranted investigation... and speaking of warrants, it also appears that those were in order and that protocol was- and is being followed. I missed how the authorities were alerted in the first place that there were e g things on the guy's laptop (and in their background) to be investigated, maybe the subject for another NYT article?
 --Jenifer  

--- On Sun, 9/20/09, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Peace-discuss] "Alleged terrorist plot"
To: "Peace Discuss" <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
Date: Sunday, September 20, 2009, 10:59 AM






http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/us/21terror.html?_r=1&hp
 

"Federal authorities arrested an airport shuttle bus driver and his father in Colorado and another man in New York City on Saturday night, charging them with lying to investigators about an alleged terrorist plot to detonate an improvised explosive against an unknown target in the United States."
 
This is the opening paragraph of a front-page NYT article today. How does one lie about an alleged terrorist plot that does not exist?
 
The FBI--give them their due--actually managed to foil a "plot" that was not the work of an FBI agent himself. Well, not exactly. There's no indication in the article as to any evidence relating what the "alleged terrorist plot" might have been. So we are left with a guy with notes about explosives on his computer.
 
This quote from a Justice Department official is from later in the article: “The arrests carried out tonight are part of an ongoing and fast-paced investigation. It is important to note that we have no specific information regarding the timing, location or target of any planned attack.” 
 
This really defies parody.

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